A Prophecy in Which Zechariah Sees that Instead of True Shepherds There Will Arise False Shepherds. He as The True Shepherd will be Rejected (Zechariah 11:1-17).
Zchariah now returns to his theme of the false shepherds as found in Zechariah 10:2-3. Up to now the future has on the whole seemed rosy. But Zechariah recognised the problem of the false shepherds. False shepherds have already arisen (Zechariah 10:2-3) and will yet arise and doom will come on the land. Before the eschatological salvation must come the period of darkness. Things will not quite go as he had hoped.